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David Raksin
Highest Rated: 100% Force of Evil (1948)
Lowest Rated: 18% Forever Amber (1947)
Birthday: Aug 4, 1912
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Best known for his haunting scores for "Laura" (1944) and the Vincente Minnelli melodramas, "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1944) and "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962), Raksin began his film career as the music arranger for Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" (1936). He has also composed for the stage, radio, TV ("Wagon Train," "Life With Father," "Father of the Bride," "Ben Casey" and "Medical Center"), symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35% | 47% | 20 Dates | Original Music | $536.8K | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost of Flight 401 | Original Music | - | 1978 |
| 55% | 41% | What's the Matter With Helen? | Original Music | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Original Music | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Invitation to a Gunfighter | Original Music | - | 1964 |
| 80% | 71% | Too Late Blues | Original Music | - | 1962 |
| 89% | 62% | Two Weeks in Another Town | Original Music | - | 1962 |
| 86% | 52% | Night Tide | Original Music | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Pay or Die | Original Music | - | 1960 |
| 67% | 76% | Separate Tables | Original Music | - | 1958 |
| 91% | 84% | Bigger Than Life | Original Music | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7 Wonders of the World | Original Music | - | 1956 |
| 93% | 80% | The Big Combo | Original Music | - | 1955 |
| 64% | 45% | Apache | Original Music | - | 1954 |
| 80% | 86% | The Bad and the Beautiful | Original Music | - | 1952 |
| 71% | 58% | Carrie | Original Music | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madeline | Original Music | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Across the Wide Missouri | Original Music | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Kind Lady | Original Music | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Right Cross | Original Music | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 75% | Force of Evil | Original Music | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Homestretch | Original Music | - | 1947 |
| 18% | 52% | Forever Amber | Original Music | - | 1947 |
| 82% | 80% | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Original Music | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don Juan Quilligan | Original Music | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tampico | Original Music | - | 1944 |
| 100% | 90% | Laura | Original Music | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Main Street Today | Original Music | - | 1944 |
| 100% | 74% | Girl Crazy | Original Music | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inflation | Original Music | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On the Sunny Side | Original Music | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | Two Girls on Broadway | Original Music | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady in the Morgue | Non-Original Music | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's Dangerous | Original Music | - | 1937 |